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LIVING SMALL – The Blood Ties Four Directions Centre’s proposed Steve Cardiff tiny house project, on the right here, is seen in this illustration. The house on the left is already standing. Inset Patricia Bacon Illustration courtesy KOBAYASHI AND ZEDDA ARCHITECTS LTD.

Tiny house project envisioned for downtown

The Blood Ties Four Directions Centre is moving ahead with plans for a five-unit tiny home development downtown.

Comments (14)

Nile Nukon on Dec 12, 2017 at 2:41 pm

Yukon Watchdog on Dec 11, 2017 at 9:18 am

With two-story tiny homes, these places will also be restricted to those with no mobility issues. This is not a well-thought-out plan, in any respect. This plan should be reconsidered for so many reasons.

Josey Wales on Dec 10, 2017 at 9:34 am

Seems there are a couple fads here, tiny homes and tiny minds.
The ngo headquarters of Canadastan, folks drawing wages displaying their virtue. Seems I have moved to east van, all with zero carbon footprint....as it came here.
Good luck on your visions of a social utopia, and when you need more public money? Remember the line now serpentines from our hall and down a few blocks, rife with virtuous ngo reps.

yukon56 on Dec 8, 2017 at 7:36 pm

north_of_60 on Dec 8, 2017 at 4:06 pm

This group clearly has more money than it needs if it can afford trendy architects and chooses to build their impractical designs.
My charitable donations go to groups who spend their limited resources wisely.

Bob Ablanalp on Dec 8, 2017 at 3:01 pm

Groucho d'North on Dec 8, 2017 at 11:36 am

Five single detached homes will vent more heat and consume more energy to produce it. A multi-unit structure would be a much wiser investment from a save the world - stop global warming perspective. The capital construction costs would be more affordable too, but the tiny house concept is fashionable now and will be seen as innovative and designed to meet the needs of low income renters when in fact, the results will not be as worthwhile in the long term.

alex on Dec 7, 2017 at 1:48 pm

The building shown on the rendering to the left of the little homes would be a better bet.
Unless these tiny homes are sitting on trailers, that 5x foundation, 5x water/sewer connection, 5x power and meter, etc etc. etc. looks nice on paper but give your head a shake. That is not the way to best spend the little money you have. Just my 2 cents.

yukonmom on Dec 7, 2017 at 8:41 am

this area of downtown went through a big process to get rid of conditional use and came up with four units per lot and that is what people are building including the apartments next door. why when k and z are involved is there always a push to relax the zoning? always. zoning is there to help people plan what kind of neighbourhood they want to live in. please respect the zoning or just close down the planning part of the planning and development department and let people do whatever they want to like they do in houston,texas and we know how that turned out.

joe on Dec 6, 2017 at 4:45 pm

ProScience Greenie on Dec 6, 2017 at 4:09 pm

Steve Cardiff was an awesome guy and an awesome tradesperson and could easily build comfortable tiny homes and do so at a very low cost. Sadly, once everyone takes their cut these new proposed home won't be low cost. Want to help those in need then reduce government bloat, inefficiency and those dipping too deeply into the gravy train.

north_of_60 on Dec 6, 2017 at 4:06 pm

Is this group of five cabins really the best use of their limited financial resources? It's likely that an eight unit apartment building with much lower operating and maintenance costs could be built with the same amount of money.

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